Ridley Scott brings a sure hand to this 2009 screen version of Washington Post columnist David Ignatius's contemporary novel of terrorism, espionage, and betrayal. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Roger Ferris, a CIA agent in the Middle East, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events and an eye in the sky that tracks his every move as he goes about his seemingly rogue mission. Russell Crowe is Ed Hoffman, Ferris's contact back at Langley, absorbed in his daily life in America and seemingly oblivious to the hardships and deadly consequences that Ferris is facing.